User talk:Koba44

Changeling Bashir Origin
Hello, I apologize if this is not the correct place to post this. Feel free to let me know if it is not: Your Edit to Changeling Bashir:

My edit was based on DB official blog post. You can read it here: http://www.disruptorbeam.com/blog/2016/6/13/contingency-plan-galaxy-event-starts-june-16th It clearly states the character is from "By Inferno Light" and not the Krajensky Changling. See the end of the second paragraph. Also it is clear it is not the Changeling from the image you posted from the the Starfleet uniform. They changed uniforms in season 5, which he is wearing in the game. The image you posted he is wearing the old uniforms (season 1-4). Based on the uniform and the official blog from DB I made the edit.

Crew Members Images
Hi Koba. We always appreciate contributions to the Wiki. Please do not change head shots of crew unless it's with a better quality head shot. Everything is kept consistent across crew pages... including the head shot. I uploaded a new version that is 400x400 pixels and much better quality than the original and the one that you replaced it with. Thank you. Jello (talk) 11:33, 8 April 2016 (CDT)


 * OK. I will leave headshots as they are. Should I upload whole pictures of characters or not? I saw you undo character picture in Commander Spock. Should I crate them or not? Koba44 (Koba44) 19:13, 8 April 2016


 * Yes, add all you want to the Character page. The more info and pics of the character to complete the page, the better. But the crew pages should be head shot, and possibly specialy card made for the crew member. Just in case clarification is needed, crew pages take priority as they are the crew members within the game. Character pages are their actual name (Montgomery Scott is his official name and Scotty would be a nickname which should redirect to Montgomery Scott, and "Captain Scott" would be a crew member). I like what you're doing on the Character pages with the gallery and links to the crew member variants.


 * OK, I will continue in Character Pages. I renamed "Montgomery Scott" to "Scotty", becauce ingame in crew roster all versions of Spock are listed as "Scotty". Accordingly I switched "Nyota Uhura" to "Uhura" for the same reason.


 * Forgot to mention, at some point I was going to add a gallery at the bottom of the crew member pages of Level 100 stats that members are posting on the DB forums.


 * I didnt find full pictures of [crew] here (full picture with legs). So I add them. I could undo this, but should I link that pictures somewhere in the crew page (I dont think gallery under stat tables would have any use, becaune nobody would scroll down there :) ) I did Recovering Spock, Vedek Winn Adami, Lt Commander Scott, Dr Phlox, Cadet Nog and Comm Officer Uhura. No problem to undo it, but waste of full pictures, I think.


 * One more thing - I firstly changed headshots, because I think it shoud be obvious from the first look on headshot - how many stars that crew member has. But its only my opinion.


 * I think this would be a discussion for the community board and possibly to vote on how it should be done. I have added the discussion to Talk:Crew Jello (talk) 12:39, 11 April 2016 (CDT)

Div Tags
Please do not change the mobileclear tag it is there for a reason instead of using clear:both. Plus it is bad form to leave div tags hanging.

Alexander and Naomi
Huh? How does that make it any easier? I fixed it precisely because I couldn't find these two characters. It's super counter-intuitive to have them named differently in the navbox than they are labeled in the game. Gamma Sector (talk) 16:30, 30 June 2016 (CDT)
 * Koba44's comment is outdated by now, we agreed to use the in-game shortnames in the NavBox, and sort the names by that as well. The only big exception are Deanna+Lwaxana Troi, as they are both called "Troi" in-game due to a DB bug/inconsistency (but kept under "T" due to the in-game shortname). --Crunch (talk) 17:23, 30 June 2016 (CDT)

SLI
Hiho. According to the discussion on Template talk:SLINav and the next section Template talk:SLINav, the consensus appears to be to include both flipped images as well as differently colored items in the SLI section, so there shouldn't be any need to remove items that fall into that category. Unless we'd all agree that we really want to make this a "identically looking images" classification. Feel free to comment on the page! Thanks! --Crunch (talk) 15:54, 5 July 2016 (CDT)
 * I didnt notice that discussion, so until conclusion I suspend editing SLINav Template - just adding new images if possible. Thanks for info. --Koba44 (talk) 16:02, 5 July 2016 (CDT)

Coffee Sub-3
Couriously, for: Template:ItemX/Coffee_Substitute/3 are you sure that both and  Coffee Sub Recipe use only the  Quality Coffee Sub? (and not &rarr;  &rarr;  order? )  =/\= Eeb3 (talk) =/\= 15:08, 26 July 2016 (CDT)
 * Nope. I just copies data from previous table and this was a mistake. Item history shows uncommon item, so I corrected it already. Thanks! --Koba44 (talk) 23:58, 26 July 2016 (CDT)

"Hounded" - conflicting info
I saw you filled out the info for Hounded, can you review it? There's a conflict on what drops from the epic version - the reward table says the last standard reward is a 2-star Optronic Circuit, but the DropTest table claims it is a 2-star Isolinear Chips instead. I unfortunately don't have access to that mission to check for myself which is correct. SleepingDragon (talk) 02:54, 6 August 2016 (CDT)
 * Corrected - it was Isolinear. Not sure if I did mistake when filling info, or THEY changed it. --Koba44 (talk) 12:54, 6 August 2016 (CDT)

Tuvix's Uniform Icons
I just reverted the change you made to the icons on the Tuvix's Uniform page. That item uses a unique icon set that is very similar at a glance, but not identical to the regular Starfleet Security Uniform (VOY). The icon set the page was using before was correct. SleepingDragon (talk) 01:42, 13 October 2016 (CDT)
 * I see, now - different color of undershirt. Could you update hires images of that icons with proper star position (lower) ? --Koba44 (talk) 03:23, 13 October 2016 (CDT)
 * From what I can access on my game I'm not seeing a way to get the rare/super-rare versions to come up with the stars in a lower position. Though is there even a guideline for what is the 'proper' version of icons to upload? I have yet to come across one. SleepingDragon (talk) 19:30, 13 October 2016 (CDT)
 * Well, I dont know if there is somewhere a guideline. Few months ago I noticed someone talk about this, but dont remember where. True is, that majority of icons has stars in lower position. Icons should be consistent in general - if possible. Also with lower position of stars is the very picture more visible. --Koba44 (talk) 00:00, 14 October 2016 (CDT)

Permission to use character table?
Hey Koba44, I just wanted to check with you and make sure it's cool if I use your character table for my crew? Awesome design BTW.

Thanks,

--&#124;&#124;&#124; DJH &#124;&#124;&#124; (talk) 05:25, 1 November 2016 (CDT)


 * Thanks. I modified and changed that design several times. I also noticed several users already copied that desigh for their user pages (without asking) so that should be no problem. Everything is free on this wiki, I suppose. --Koba44 (talk) 11:44, 1 November 2016 (CDT)


 * I nabbed it for myself as well and made my own modifications. I get asked about it a lot and I just direct them to your table since that's where I got it from. I was considering making an easy to use (and easy to update) template for it that anyone could use or I might come up with a table of my own design. Problem is, I'm bad with design. I'm an engineer by profession, so I think more in terms of function than form. --Darxide (talk) 22:00, 12 December 2016 (CST)

Image Sources
Koba, how are you getting/trimming the hi-res images? I've been adding quite a few items recently (correctly, I hope), but finding images is the one part I don't know how to do. Taking screenshots isn't working too well, because trimming the corners to get the nice, transparent corners is something I don't know how to do. Thanks! Silverstorm (talk) 00:56, 4 November 2016 (CDT)
 * Hi. I believe we are talking about items images. I do a screenshot of the proper picture (with proper star position). Then I open a blank template (see File:ItemNameSuperRare.png) in Photoshop and paste a screenshot on the blank template. I move the screenshot to fix the position of stars on screenshot with stars on blank tamplate. When done, I cut borders from the screenshot - so you have item image with blank borders. --Koba44 (talk) 01:36, 4 November 2016 (CDT)
 * OK, makes sense. I will see what I can do with the blanks.  That was the missing piece for me.  I can take a screenshot, but having a clean border was my problem.  Silverstorm (talk) 01:41, 4 November 2016 (CDT)

Deformed Images
Koba, I noticed you "changed" some images noting that the ones I uploaded were deformed. Please check this images and see how the left one is correct and the right one is "squeezed" in and thus to skinny. The left one is my original image and the right one is yours (both are as seen on the wiki). I am not sure what the deformation is you noticed but I suggest making sure to clear cashed images before changing. I get my images from a brand new high resolution iPad and use photoshop CC 2017 to get them ready without any change in dimensions and so the images are as they appear in the game. I reverted them back but please contact me if you see a problem I am not seeing. --Otto VonBacon (talk) 12:25, 24 December 2016 (CST)


 * Well, game itself sometimes deforms original images. It is seen for example on Dabo, when you click on the jackpot 5-star crewmember, it is clearly visible, that they are deformed. Proportions of my (original) screenshots are slightly different than yours. Since neither of us changed them after capturing screen, they should be same (your screens with higher resolution though). Yet they are different. But now I compared your screenshots with hires headshots available on wiki, and they have perfect match. So my mistake. --Koba44 (talk) 13:29, 24 December 2016 (CST)

No worries. I assumed that for some reason we were seeing things differently and I only wish we could see how or why this is. But in any case thanks for the response. Otto VonBacon (talk) 17:17, 24 December 2016 (CST)

Crew Images
Hi, I just created categories for almost every crew image. I might have missed a few "Head" or "Vault head" images, but every "head" image should be catagorized. The categories I used are here:
 * Category:Crew Head ( pages) -
 * Category:Crew head ( pages) -
 * Category:Crew Vault head ( pages) -

I hope this helps organize future uploads and to see what images have been uploaded in the 3 different categories. Please try to add the correct category when uploading future images.

Thanks and have a, 03:11, 4 January 2017 (CST)


 * Great idea. I added several missing "Head" images. --Koba44 (talk) 06:01, 4 January 2017 (CST)

"re cropping" of Images
Now I understand that one would upload higher resolution of any image but to better "crop" a png is kinda ridiculous. png's inherently have transparency and thus the cropping to the exact edges of the image is not necessary. Please if you feel my images need some adjustments to be better tell me instead of cropping a downloaded image where the quality only goes down with each download and re-upload. Otto VonBacon (talk) 22:08, 5 January 2017 (CST)


 * The higher resolution, the better. But those images are used also on pages with size directly specified in the wiki code. In those cases un-cropped images causes the very image looks smaller. It is more visible with images of crew members, because if you set image size to 75% (for example), figures on un-cropped and cropped images doesnt have comparable size. Thats the reason I cropped your hires images. I didnt notice any quality decrease, but true is Im not and PNG-mechanics expert. --Koba44 (talk) 03:17, 6 January 2017 (CST)

Vault Heads
Hi Koba, Is there any chance you'd be able to upload images of vaulted crew? (see Category:Crew Vault head) I noticed that you had an impressive number of crew vaulted. I am not in a position to upload them as I am only able to access STT via an iPhone 6s, which i don't think is high enough resolution for photo uploads. Please let me know if this is an incorrect assumption. Thanks and have a good, 01:47, 9 January 2017 (CST)
 * CryostasisVaultIcon.png In fact I could do that, but somehow I dont see the point of these pictures (crew portraits are grayish). They could be used only on User pages, where are better standard "head" or "Head" portraits with (for example) Vault icon. But if those "Vault" images are truly necessary, I can add some of mine collection. --Koba44 (talk) 02:59, 9 January 2017 (CST)
 * I was just figuring that we should try to be as complete with our uploads as possible (and information), that way if anyone ever wants to use them, they can. Also, we can make a Gallery of the Cryostasis Vault in the order that is in game. Again, not something a large number of people would use, but im sure quite a few would.  On a different topic, any suggestions for how to categorize items/components images? I was thinking about taking that on, and was considering using "Category: Rare Item Imge", "Category: Uncommon Equipment Image", and "Legendary Equipment Image" where appropriate. Thanks,  16:07, 9 January 2017 (CST)
 * OK, will do, but my priorities are Crew head/Head & Item images. --Koba44 (talk) 01:24, 10 January 2017 (CST)